Faced with Shigeharu Takenaka saying that the Hida Echichu Army was a variable in the decisive battle of Takeda Oda, Li Xiao looked noncommittal.

Although he is very confident and turns the tide of the battle, he is still very low-key to the outside world.

Li Xiao smiled slightly: "It seems that Lord Takenaka has great expectations for this legion!" ”

Shigeharu Takenaka waved his folding fan lightly and said, "It's not so much that I have expectations for this legion, but that I have expectations for Tajima Mamoru . ”

"Down?" Li Xiao was slightly surprised when he heard this.

Shigeharu Takenaka nodded, and said: "Not only in the lower ranks, but also in the whole legion, there are expectations for Tajima Mamoru in the past, and there are many misunderstandings about Tajima Mamoru in Mino, but after coming to Echichu for several years, I admire Your Excellency's ability even more." I apologize to you for your previous inconvenience. ”

Li Xiao laughed when he heard this, glanced at Shigeji Takenaka, and said: "It's very rare, half-guard, the recognition of the subordinates makes Li Xiao feel quite scared." ”

Shigeji Takenaka smiled slightly, and said: "It's just an afterthought, but Lord Mamori, right now Takenaka has taken Takeda, sharing honor and disgrace, and I don't want to see Oda sweeping the world." Nobunaga's disposition of Mt. Hiei, Hokuriku, and Nagashima proves that he is the lord of violence, and it is not a blessing for the people to become a man of the world. ”

"The decisive battle between Takeda and Oda, this is a great change in the world for hundreds of years, and I hope that Lord Tajima Mamoru can seize the opportunity, take advantage of the momentum, and achieve great things."

Take advantage of the momentum and achieve great things.

Hearing these eight words, Li Xiao's brows twisted slightly, thinking to himself whether Takenaka's words were deliberately testing his ambitions?

Of course, Li Xiao wouldn't reveal anything easily, but smiled: "What the half-soldier said is right, I will assist the Pavilion Master to achieve this great cause." ”

After seeing Li Xiao, this topic will be exposed at will.

Shigeharu Takenaka's eyes narrowed, as if he was trying to figure out something.

Immediately Kinoshita Hidenaga and Shigeharu Takenaka bid farewell to Li Xiao.

Li Xiao was on the windowsill of the castle tower, watching Shigeharu Takenaka leave, thinking to himself, although the other party's words seemed to have the intention of moving closer to him, he still couldn't trust Shigeharu Takenaka.

In addition, for Kaga Honganji Temple, Li Xiao was repeatedly invited to help, and at the same time, it was also for the preparation of the decisive battle against the Oda family.

Li Xiao has also made a decision to carry out military restructuring under his rule.

Li Xiao also adopted the military system of the Takeda family's relatives and sons, with the city as the center, and the regional legions were divided and belonged.

In fact, Li Xiao's current land under the jurisdiction of the Hida Echichu Legion has reached 650,000 stones, which is more than when he was in the fourth year of Yonglu, before the crossing, the Takeda family actually controlled Shi Gao.

Therefore, in order to cooperate with the war and implement the rapid mobilization of peasants and soldiers, Li Xiao also reorganized the regiment.

In Japan, the military system in the general sense of the Warring States period was divided into preparation, public, and power.

A reserve of between 300 and 800 people, generally 10,000 stone level, or 20,000 or 30,000 level lords can mobilize troops.

And the daimyo honjinbei, also known as the flag honbei, can reach 1,500 people.

Of course, this is also the smallest strategic unit in a battle.

And the public is a strategic unit at the upper level of the reserve, and the public can have three or four reserves, which is generally the scale of a daimyo above 100,000 stones.

The strength of the congregation can generally reach 2,000 to 4,000.

The momentum, on the other hand, is one level higher than the crowd, and it is generally the strength of the lord-level daimyo who is mobilized, and the scale of its troops is more than 10,000 people.

And Li Xiao is now also dividing such a military system.

He had already decided to make Fujitang Gaohu the lord of Muzhou City, and he would know 12,000 stones, and at the same time serve as the county representative of Sheshui County in Vietnam.

With Li Xiao's permission, Fujitang Gaohu has the right to mobilize the whole county of Sheshui County and organize the military system into the Sheshui people. …,

Its mission was to support Kaga Ichijomune.

As for most of the Vietnamese women's negative counties, except for the vicinity of Chengsheng Castle, they were in charge of the guardian of Vietnam, the lord of Toyama Castle, Jinpo Changxian, and with Li Xiao's permission, mobilized the Vietnamese women's negative counties.

The military system is dominated by women, and generally exists as a reserve, waiting for Li Xiao's dispatch to support various regions.

Kinoshita Hidenaga, the lord of Matsukura Castle, was added as the county representative of Shinkawa County, Vietnam, China, and in addition to his own skills, he could replace Li Xiao to carry out the mobilization of the whole county, while Takenaka Shigeharu was to assist in supervising Kinoshita Hidenaga's existence.

The formation of the military system is the shooting of water, and its task is to defend the city, and specially carry out the garrison and combat mission against the Echigo Uesugi family.

In Hida Province, except for the vicinity of Kamioka Castle, it is named by Hida Kuni's sister Koji Takatsuna, and the actual power is in the hands of the Uchijima clan.

The military system is the Hida Clan, and its mission is the same as that of the Water Shooting Clan, which also exists as a reserve.

On the Mino side, it was the county of the county, and the lord of Kajida Castle, Kajida Castle, was victorious, and he had full control of Li Xiao's military situation in Mino.

It was organized as the Mino, and was specifically responsible for the garrison of Mino and the war against the Oda family.

As for Noto, Sado has just been captured, and it will not be divided for the time being, and it will be managed by Li Xiao.

In this way, the five people of Shima Katsuto, Kinoshita Hidenaga, Jimbo Nagaken, Fujido Takatora, and Uchijima Clan are actually equivalent to the four major armies of Takeda Shingen's Shitamayama, Baba, Naito, and Takasaka.

Among these five people, Shima Katsumo, Kinoshita Hidecho, and Fujido Gaohu are all direct retainers who Li Xiao single-handedly raised.

Jimbo Nagaken is a man, while Uchijima is a member of other countries.

These five people, plus Nengden Sadu, plus his five standing armies, Li Xiao now has the largest mobilizable force, which has reached 30,000.

If it weren't for the existence of such an anti-heaven existence as Nobunaga, these forces would have been qualified to compete for the ownership of the world ten years ago.

No wonder Shigeharu Takenaka said that Li Xiao's Hida Echichu Army was a variable in the decisive battle of Oda Takeda.

Li Xiao also has a deep understanding of this.

Of course, the strength of the Hida Echichu Legion is not only seen by Li Xiao and Shigeharu Takenaka.

At the end of the second year of Tianzheng, there was another uninvited guest in the city.

This person is a guest who carried out the Great Crossing of the Hida Mountains in the winter and came from Mino to Jobu Castle.

When Li Xiaozhi heard this person's name, he suddenly realized that only such a person could do this thing.

The other party was none other than the Nobunaga retainer sent by the Oda family to Chengsheng Castle to persuade Li Xiao to surrender, and Sasa Narimasa, one of the three people in the house.

The reason why it is said that there is such a thing as Hida Da crossing, only Sasa Narimasa can do it.

It is because historically, after the Battle of Shidake, Sasa Chengzheng has almost become the de facto leader of Vietnam.

At that time, Hideyoshi Hashiba and Tokugawa Ieyasu were holding a long-term battle against Komakiyasu, and the two sides were fighting fiercely.

Fearing that Ieyasu would make peace with Hideyoshi Hashiba, Sasa Narimasa and fifty retainers set out from Toyama Castle and crossed Hida Shinano in the winter, arriving in Hamamatsu after a month, meeting Tokugawa Ieyasu and begging him not to subdue Hideyoshi Hashiba.

It's a pity that the final result failed, otherwise Zuo Zuo's move was enough to draw a heavy mark in the history books.

And this time, the purpose of Sasa Narumasa to carry out the Hida Great Crossing was to persuade Li Xiao to surrender on the orders of Lord Nobunaga.

In the greenhouse of the castle tower, Li Xiao was looking at Sazuo Chengzheng, who was so cold that his nose was blue and his face was swollen.

Zuo Zuo Chengzheng bowed to Li Xiao and said, "But Lord Ma Shou, the sincerity of the lord has been clearly explained in the letter. ”

Li Xiao nodded and said, "That's true, otherwise Lord Mutsu Shou wouldn't have come here over the mountains and mountains in this winter." ”

Sasa Chengzheng nodded and said: "Before coming here, the lord said to me that the family has unified and has the power of the world in hand, and the likes of Takeda are just mantis arms as cars, and they will definitely be destroyed in a war soon." Ignorant of the general trend and trying to give it a try, this is really a gambler's desperate behavior with no chance of winning. ”…,

"But Lord Danma is different, Your Excellency is a person of insight, knows the times, and knows how to advance and retreat, and will definitely understand the truth of this, and will not be broken together with the Takeda family. So the lord wants to hear what Tajima Mamoru means. As long as you are willing to agree to subdue my Oda family and offer hostages, the lord will promise to secure your current territory. ”

Listening to Zuo Zuo Chengzheng's words, even though Li Xiao had already made up his mind in his heart, he couldn't help but be slightly shaken at this moment.

"Oda Right, it's really a good condition for me!" Li Xiao smiled, but after a while, the smile disappeared, and he said: "But unfortunately, thanks to the kindness of the Oda Right Mansion, I will not subdue the Oda family." ”

Zuo Zuo Chengzheng listened to Li Xiao's previous words, and thought that the other party was about to agree, but he didn't expect him to not allow it.

Zuo Zuo Chengzheng stared at Li Xiao with a straight gaze, and said loudly: "May I ask why Lord Danma Shou didn't agree, is there still any hesitation in Your Excellency?" ”

After a pause, Sasa Seimasa seemed to understand what he said: "I know that Tajima-sama's family is in Kai, but the lord has promised to do everything in his power to rescue Your Excellency. What's more, the affection of children is nothing compared to the great cause of the world. ”

"The lord also said that if Tajima Mamoru agreed to the family's conditions, he could let Mrs. Ichichi marry Your Excellency, so as to show the sincerity of the Oda family."

Nani? Li Xiao suddenly felt a sense of absurdity, in order to win himself over, Nobunaga was even willing to throw out his sister's chess piece.

But the surprise was fleeting.

Li Xiao smiled slightly, and said in his heart: Oda City, the first beauty of the Warring States.

Maybe ten years ago, I would still be moved, but now.

It's a pity that I'm not a shallow well Nagamasa, so it's better to be so famous, not to mention that the other party is still the mother of three children.

However, Li Xiao also knew that during the Warring States period, the widow remarried, and the oil bottle was nothing, not much depreciation, such as Nagai Michitoshi, Akiyama Nobuyo was tired of it.

On the contrary, Nobunaga's sending of Oda City was also quite like handing over the hostages to Li Xiao.

However, the lessons of Asai Nagamasa are in front of him, and this hostage is nothing.

But even if Oda City is a hundred times better, it is absolutely impossible for Li Xiao to compare with Yumi Kohata in his mind.

In the face of Zuo Zuo Chengzheng's words, Li Xiao stood up unhappily, Huo Ran said: "It's not that the conditions are dissatisfied, it's just that the two generations of the lord of the family have treated me Li Xiao with great righteousness and gratitude, so I will never betray Takeda, this is my Li Xiao's final reply." ”

When Zuo Zuo Cheng heard Li Xiao's words, his face was gloomy, and he said unceremoniously: "But Lord Ma Shou, Your Excellency needs to think clearly, this is your last chance, if you don't agree, what will be the consequences, you will understand, not only Kai, Shinano, Echichu, Hida, but also a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, blood flowing like a river." ”

"Don't you know what happened to Asai Nagamasa and Asakura Yoshikei? Don't you want to keep this head? ”

Li Xiao listened to Zuo Zuo Chengzheng's threatening words, and said with a cold smile: "I see, those who follow me prosper and those who oppose me die, it seems that this is Nobunaga's decision." But I forgot to tell you that I hate coercion the most in my life! ”

Speaking of this, Li Xiao's face sank, and he said to the outside world: "Give me this Zuo Zuo Zheng, drag it down and beat it for thirty boards, and then drive it out of the city!" ”

After Li Xiao finished speaking, the paper door was pushed, and several people outside the door rushed into the door, and several people served, and Zuo Zuo Chengzheng directly pressed his head on the floor.

Zuo Zuo Chengzheng listened to Li Xiao's words, and said angrily: "Li Xiao, you, the two countries will fight each other!" If you do this, the lord will not let you go. ”

Li Xiao sneered and said, "I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with you, drag it down, and hit it hard!" ”

Seeing that Li Xiao turned his face ruthlessly, Zuo Zuo Chengzheng couldn't help but scold, dragging Li Xiao sideways while scolding: "Li Xiao, you wait, the lord will definitely avenge me, and you will regret it at that time!" ”…,

In the middle of Gifu Castle.

The Oda family is a scene of great momentum.

The Oda family, which has unified the heart of the world, is now in full swing, and the scenery is in all directions.

No one dared to disobey Nobunaga's will.

And at this moment, it is the third year of Tensho, and the New Year's celebration of the Oda family in the first month.

From, the daimyo retainers of all sides of Ise came from afar to walk through the snow, such as Matsunaga Shu and Ikeda Katsumasa, all of whom were daimyo who had a power on one side.

They were all at this moment, all bowing their heads and prostrate under a Nobunaga.

At the banquet, Nobunaga held a blood-colored transparent glass in his hand, and looked at these unbeatable daimyo with satisfaction, prostrate under him, looking at himself with a look of fear.

This feeling of holding the world in your hands and stepping on the soles of countless people's feet is not one of the goals pursued by the eldest husband.

So it's no wonder that Nobunaga is full of ambition at the moment.

However, at the banquet, a person who leaned close to Nobunaga whispered something about it, and this mood was broken in an instant.

For a moment, Oda Nobunaga almost crushed the glass in his hand.

Late at night, in the white five-fold castle tower of Gifu Castle.

Sasa Narumasa was kneeling there in a strange posture.

Since he was broken by Li Xiao in Shiro Castle, Sasa Naruma returned to Mino half a month later, under the cover of the ninjas of the Oda family, through Kaga, which was occupied by Ichizamune.

He was reporting to Nobunaga about the failure of his mission to Vietnam.

After Nobunaga listened to Sasa Naimasa's words, his face became even more ruthless, after the destruction of Asai, Asakura, and Miyoshi, there are few people in the world who are like this, and they directly cut their face.

What's more, this time, Li Xiao still broke a leg of the envoy he sent, which made him, a general who has always been able to fight well, become a cripple from now on and can no longer go to the battlefield.

Thinking of this, Nobunaga was furious and shouted: "Since Takeda Katsuyori and Li Xiao are both disgusted with longevity, then after the winter snow melts, it will be the end of you!" ”

"Order all the retainers to discuss the decisive battle at Takeda!"